The five jewels

Continued from vol 02, issue 02

Ahsan Ali once acted as a character of Afzal Hossain's friend. It has to be mentioned that Zitu Ahsan, son of Syed Ahsan Ali is now acting in several television dramas with prowess.
The biggest difference between stage acting, television and film acting was during the play in stage or television the script has to be memorized. It was a great panic for the film artists. Many artists did not want to come in television due to being afraid of memorizing script.
Though the audiences used to see three jewels in the “Triratna” drama but beside them there were two more jewels in the television. The three jewels of Triratna were Ashish Kumar Loho, Khan Jainul and Abdul Jalil. The other two jewels were Farid Ali and Altaf Hossain. These five friends were used to be the superstars of television dramas. All of them except Abdul Jalil and Altaf Hossain were not only actors but also playwrights. Specially in writing comedy dramas still no one is seen in replacement of them.
Many people thought of Khan Jainul as a skilled actor seeing the way of his play in Triratna. But, Khan Jainul was never interested in acting in television drama. Though he continued playing on stage and film with full of strength,his main fear in acting in front the television camera was memorizing the script. The artist of first television drama and the playwright of 4th drama of television Farid Ali had brought his friend Khan Jainul to act in the television. Even Ashish Kumr Loho has written a comedy drama considering him. The producer was Zaman Ali Khan. Farid Ali has convinced Jainul saying so many mellow words and brought him to DIT Bhaban. Many conversations have been held seating before Zaman Ali Khan. Then the audition process started in front of two cameras. The cameramen were Golam Mostofa and Mahmud Ahmed. A script of the play has been given in Khan Jainul's hand. Khan Jainul told Farid Ali that he could never memorize the script. Farid Ali suggested him to express the essential idea in front of the camera instead of memorizing the script.
As usual the Khan Jainul has stand in front of the camera. The camera has been turned on. Mahmud Ahmed told him to speak the dialogue.
Zaman Ali Khan said from the panel, “What happened?” “Why doesn't he speak up the dialogue?”
Mahmud Ahmed became worried seeing the situation of the artist. Zaman Ali Khan was hearing the sound of knocking from the panel instead of the dialogues. That Khan Jainul was so nervous about to speak up the dialogues whose dialogues have been hummed by the audiences later on.
Now clip microphone has been provided during audition, at that time the whole audio system of the DIT studio was in boom. Khan Jainul took the advantage of that. Mahmud Ahmed asked Khan Jainul why he was so nervous.
Khan Jainul told him to switch off all the light. Mahmud Ahmed took Khan Jainul to the front to give him some strength. Khan Jainul started running away the studio leaving the script. Farid Ali was behind him. If it was possible to beat Farid Ali then Khan Jainul could do so in the balcony of DIT. But the interesting fact was all the officials of television were watching the situation along with Zaman Ali Khan. Then they realized that Khan Jainul was actually a professional actor. They have decided to give this artist the chance to act in television. Not only the chance; Khan Jainul had used the style of speaking up the dialogues and being nervous in many plays then.
To be continued…

The writer is Managing Director, Channel i
Translated by Imtiaz Salim